"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened but if a story touches you, it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."
                                  - Neil Gaiman

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."
                                 - J. K. Rowling

"A good story should make you laugh and a moment later, breaks your heart."
                                - Chuck Palchniuk

"Writers live twice."
                                - Natalie Goldberg

"When writing a novel, a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature."
                                - Ernest Hemingway